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Yamhill County Reporter D. I. ÀBB4IBY. Fnbllsher. M c M innville .................. oregom THE NEWS OF THE WEEK Cvm|ir«hrn>lv> llowlew of the Import ant Happening« of the Past Week Culled From the Telegraph Column«. Three young girls perished in the burning of an orphans’ home at Berne, Ohio. Cosimir, the Indian who murdered Philip Walker, has been captured at Kamloops. Fire destroyed the department store of Ewer & Co., at Newcastle, Pa. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $50,000. President McKinley has accepted an invitation to attend the Ohio state en campment of the G. A. It. in June. The American Car & Foundry Com pany, at Jeffersonville, Ind., increased the wages of its 2,000 employes 10 per cent. At Sioux Falls, Judge Garland sen tenced Bad Elk to be hanged June 16 for killing a policeman who tried to arrest him. It has been decided by the German government to adopt the English Thornycroft system of water-tube boil ers in all German men-of-war. Beading railroad repair-shop me chanics and other employee will have their wages advanced from 5 to 10 per cent. Two thousand men will be affected. The new sternwheel revenue cutter Kunivea had her trial trip at San Fran cisco. She is for use on the Yukon, and will be towed to St. Michaels by the Bear. Gomez has determined to announce to the people of Cuba his support of an American protectorate until such time as stable, independent government may be formed. Serious student riots have occurred at the university of Kietf, Russia, the rioters smashing windows with stones. Troops dispersed the mob and arrested 400 students. The Major investigating committee of the Missouri state senate, which has been turning over the affairs of the state and municipal offices in St. Louis, has made a report in which it finds millions of dollars’ worth of property in St. Louis has escaped taxation. Speaker Reed has decided to become a member of the law firm of Simpson, Thacher & Barnum, of New York. It is understood that Reed will resign his seat in congress and remove to New York. The statement has been made that Mr. Reed is guaianteed a yearly income of $50,000. Mail advices from Australia give full particulars of the terrible hurricane which swept the northeast coast of Queensland early in March, and in which 14 white and about 400 colored men were drowned. Eighty luggers and six schooners were wrecked. The damage is estimated at £250,000. A. M. Larue, a murderer, was taken from jail at Henderson, Tenn., and lynched by a mob. Fourteen men were killed by a premature explosion in blasting opera tions on the railway from Bilboa to Faritander, Spain. E<l Hawthorne, charged with about 40 burglaries in various parts of the country, mostly in San Francisco, is under arrest in Denver. James J. Hill is reported to have ac quired control of the St. Paul Jt Du luth road, thus shortening his line from Duluth to the Twin cities. At Moontown, Mo., Frank Yeager killed with an ax a man named Powell, shot Mrs. Yeager three times, arid then cut his own throat. Yeager was jealous. Governor Tanner has signed the bill appropriating $250,000 to pay the Illi nois volunteers fiom the time they were mustered into the service of the United States. Andrew Carnegie has promised to give $1,760,000 to cover the cost of the proposed addition to the art, sci ence ami literary departments of the Carnegie libiary nt Pittsburg. At Bedford, 1ml., a stone quarry train was pushed over a 40-foot em bankment by the helper. Charles Meinser, engineer, and 1). J. Menough, were killed. Three men were hurt. Five thousand Indians, dissatislied with conditions in the reservation of the Indian territory, left in a laxly for Mexico to establish a union reservation on a largo lot of land near Guadalajara. In Chicago three people were smothered to death by smoke in a small two-story frame building. They liad been drinking together, and it is thought one of them upset a kerosene lamp. Governor Stephens, of Missouri, has signed the Farris insurance bill. This measure makes th<t anti-trust law apply to St Louis and Kansas City, and will I radically destroy boards of tire under* writers in both cities. LATER NEWS. Governor Gage has appointed Dan Burns as United States senator from California to succeed Stephen M. White. Ex-Governor Richard J. Oglesby fell dead near Lincoln, Neb. He iiad been in ill health for some time, but tne end was unexpected. Daniel E. Brewer, a prominent Chi cago physician, in a lecture, advocated the establishment of a Tarpeian rock in Chicago, unless the city secures a new code of criminal law. The jury in the Windsor hotel fire at New York, brought in a verdict that the fire was caused by accident. The police still have $40,000 worth of un claimed jewelry and other valuables recovered from the fire ruins. Major Francis B. Dodge, of the pay department, recently relieved fiom duty at Denver, has been selected by tiie war department to disburse the $3,- 000,000 allotted by the government for the pay of the Cuban troops. The United States Worsted Com pany, with a capital of $70,000,000, and the American Plumbing Supply & Lead Company, with an authorized capital of $35,000,000, have been in corporated under the laws of New Jer sey. N. M. Dyer, captain of the cruiser Baltimore, now at Manila, will return at once on account of sickness, and will arrive in Boston, June 30. The family has notified Baltimore city officials, and they will present biin with a sword. The president has appointed Colonel James F. Smith of the First California regiment, to be a brigadier-general of volunteers. The regiment is now in the Philippines. General Smith will be assigned to one of the brigades of General Otis’ army. At Springfield, Mo , a bold attempt was made to release from the county jail Jack Kennedy, Bill Ryan and Bill Sheppard, who are held here pending trial for the recent train robbery on the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Mem phis road, near Macomb, Mo. In the United States supreme court an opinion was handed down in the case of Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., vs. G. D. Hunt, holding that copyright on a book, the contents of which have been published serially without being previously copyrighted, is invalid. Captain Wild, of the United States cruiser Boston, has protested against the promotion of Colonel Millet to be brigadier-general as a reward for the capture of llo Ilo. It appears that this capture had been effected and that the place was simply turned over to Col onel Millet, who, up to that time, had nothing to do with its captuie. This action is indorsed by Admiral Dewey. The majority of the wounded in the Quingua engagement were Nebraska men. The Asiatic liner, Glenogle, sank the City of Kingston in a fog near Ta coma. Sam Hose, a negro, was burned at the stake in Georgia. He had killed Alfred Cranford, a white farmer, near Palmetto, and outraged his wife. Major-Geneial Otis nt Manila reports that one of tlie regiments under his command has received some cable grams reading “Don’t enlist boys.’’ The Duke of Tetuan, ex-minister of foreign affairs, has been appointed Spain’s delegate to the peace confer ence, which is to meet at The Hague next month. Contracts were signed in London Friday which formally transferred to a single organization practically all of the large producing copper mines in the United States. An informant of a London paper as serts that the Chinese, Euiopean and even American merchants doing busi ness in China are helping to supply the Filipinos with arms and ammunition. The senatorial elections for the new cortes was held at Madrid, and passed off tranquilly thioughout the country. They have resulted in giving the gov ernment a larger mHjoiity in the sen ate than it had secured in the chamber of deputies. President Zelaya has granted an op tion, in force until January 1, 1900, to Mr. Charles Nieoll, British counsel at Managua, to purchase the railroads and steamboats of Nicaragua, with the workshops appertaining to them, for the sum of 6,500,000 pesos (silver). At Oakland, Cal., John McCann, a laborer, was beaten to death during a quarrel which began doling a game of dice in a barber shop. Cornelius Townsend, a Democratic county cen tral committeeman, is accused of strik ing the blow which proved fatal. He is under arrest, as are also Frank Reiuillard, Frank Reardon and Ed Roach, all suspected of complicity in the crime. The steamer General Whitney. Cap tain Hawthorne, sunk 60 miles east of Cape Canavarel, Florida. One boat load of 16 men. attempting to land at Mosquito lagram house of refuge, upset an 1 12 men, including Ilia captain, were drowned. The chief engineer, as sistant engineer, tireman and one sailor weie saved. The captain's body has been recovered. Fifteen men in an other boat aie still nnheaid from. AMERICAN ÏR00P8 ADWE Occupied Quingua After a Sharp Engagement. REBELS DRIVEN FROMATRENCH Col. J. M. Btotienburf, of the Nebrnaka K«(imeut> Killed While Leading a Charge—Lieut* Sisson Alsu Killed. Manila, April 25. — Four men of the Nebraska regiment, including Colonel Stotsenburg, Lieutenant Sisson, and three men of the Fourth cavalry, were killed, and 44 wounded in an engage ment at Quingua. The Filipinos re treated with small loss. The engagement developed ir.to a dis astrous, though successful, tight. The insurgents had a horseshoe trench, about a mile long, encircling a rice field on the edge of a wood. Major Bell, with 40 cavalrymen, en countered a strong outpost. One of his men was killed and five were wounded by a volley. The Americans retired, carrying their wounded under fire and with great difficulty, being closely pur sued, fog enabling the enemy to creep up to them. Two men who were carry ing a comrade were shot in the arms, but they continued with their burden. Major Bell sent for reinforcements to rescue the body of the killed cavalry man, and a battalion of the Nebraska regiment, under Major Mufford, ar rived and advanced until checked by volleys from the enemy’s trenches. The Americans lav about 800 yards from the trenches behind rice furrows under fire, for two hours. Several men were sunstruck, one dying from the effects of the heat as they lay there waiting for the artillery to come up. Finally the second battalion arrived, and then Colonel Stotsenburg, who had spent the night with his father at Ma nila, came upon the field. The men immediately recognized him and raised a cheer. Colonel Stoteenburg, deciding to charge as the cheapest way out of the difficulty, led the attack at the head of bis regiment. He fell with a bullet in the breast, dying in stantly, about 200 yards from the breastwork. Lieutenant Sisson fell with a bullet in his heart, the bullet striking him near the picture of a girl, suspended by a ribbon from h is neck. In the meantime the artillery had arrived and shelled the trenches. The Filipinos stood until the Nebraska troops were right on the trem/lies, and then they bolted to the second line of the trenches, a mile back. The Nebraska regiment lost two pri vates and had many wounded, includ ing two lieutenants. The Iowa regi ment had sevetal wounded. The Utah regiment had one officer and thiee men wounded. Thirteen dead Filipinos were found in the trenches. Their loss was comparatively small on account of their safe shelter. The Americans carried the second trench with email loss, and are holding the town tonight. Colonel Stoteenburg had won a repu tation as one of the biavest fighters in the army. He always led his regiment and had achieved remarkable popular ity with hie men since the war began, although, during his first colonelcy, the volunteers who were not used to the rigid discipline of the regular troops thought him a hard officer. The loss of the Nebraska regiment in the campaign is die greatest sustained by any regiment, and today’s disaster has greatly saddened officers and men, who promise to take tiorce vengeance in the next fight. CRIME IN HAS INDIANA. ENTERED A PROTEST. Iler fiermany Take« Exception to the Utter ances of Captain Coghlan. Pana, Ill., April 24.—The mutilated body of Miss Jane Brunot, a wealthy woman of Dana, Ind., was found buried in an abandoned well on the farm of her sister-in-law near heie to day. Mrs. Anna Brunot, her eon, Henry Brunot, and Frederick Sibley are under arrest in this city, charged with the murder. The chief of police says that the persons under arrest de coyed Miss Brunot to the farm, and shot her through the head, and buried her body in an abandoned well. Miss Brunot came to this city on a visit about April 1. It is said she brought with her a valise containing a draft for $500 and other valuables. Neither Mies Brunot nor the valise was ever seen after April 1. A few days later Henry Brunot and Sibley disappeared. The police learned that the two went to Indianapolis, where they, it is said, cashed a draft for $500, aud spent the proceeds. On the strength of this clew, and a letter from Indiana friends inquiring for Miss Brunot, the three inhabitants of the Brunot farm were arrested this morning. At 8 o’clock the police found Miss Brunot’. decomposed nody in an old well. Her clothing was found in the garret of the farmhouse. Washington, April 26.—The German government has entered a formal pro test against the language used by Cap tain Coghlan at the Union League Club banquet. The protest was lodged with Secretary Hay through Geiman Ambassador von Holleben. Secretary Hav replied that the language could not be regarded as official or a publio utterance in the sense that would war rant the department in acting. How ever, the navy department was fully competent to take such action as the case seemed to require. There are semi-official intimations that the ambassador will not so much concern himself with the course of Coghlan as with the United States iu dealing with Coghlan. Wealthy Woman Murdered Money. for Entire Party That Left Sea side Perished. An Exploring' Expedition to Be Led to the Brazilian Coast- Stanford University, Cal., April 24. —Professor Alexander Agassiz, of Harvard, has made arrangements for Dr. Braunar, of the geology department here, to lead an expedition into South America in the interest of science. The work will be upon the coral reefs of the Brazilian coast, extending from Leave nearly to Rio Janeiro. The stone reefs will be mapped, and their relations to the geological history of the South American continent will be studied. Collections will be made for the museum of comparative zoology of Harvard university. Professor Agassiz will afterwards publish the results of the work in the bulletin of the museum of comparative zoology at Cambridge. The party will leave New York about June 1. ami will return in the middle of September. TRIUMPH FOR QUAY. Verdict- of Not Guilty—Governor Stone Appoint« Him United State« Senator. Philadelphia, Pa., April 24.—Mat thew Stanley Quay was today declared by a jury to be not guilty of th« charge of conspiracy to use for his own unlaw ful profit funds of the state deposited in the People’s bank of this city. The court officers were unable to keep back the struggling crowd that pressed forward to congratulate Quay, when the verdict of the jury was an nounced. As soon as Quay could get away from those anxious to shake bis hand and congratulate him, he made his way to the elevator to descend to the street from the sixth floor of the municipal building. Here the scenes just enacted in the courtroom were re peated. Enthusiasts rushed forward and attempted to hoist him on their shoulders, but he waved them back, saving “Oh, no; I’m too old a man for that.” Quay walked with his friends to the office of his counsel, where lie made hie escape from the crowd. Hobart*« I’ondith»n Washington, April 24. — Vice Presi dent Hobart is in such poor health that it is doubtful if he will be able to pre side in the senate next winter, lie I may recover, and his physicians are confident, but he will not run for vice- president again. i Washington. April 24.—Ex-Gover I ! nor Lord, of Otegon, has declined the tender of the mission to Persia. Gov ernor Lord was an applicant lor the | Peruvian mission. CANNED FOOD Bodies of Three of the Men Found — Parties Searching for the Fourth- No Marks of Violence. IN THE INTEREST OF SCIENCE. DOUBLE BY CAUSED Hanisburg, Pa., April 24. — Shortly after noon Governor Stone appointed Matthew Stanley Quay as senator to serve until the next session of the legis lature. The appointment is addressed to the president ot the United States, and it is stated in the letter to be made under the authority of clause 2 of section 3 of article 1, of the constitution of the United States. BURNED AT A STAKE. (The clause above quoted says; » Seats of the senators of the Georgia Negro Cut With Knives and ••• » first class shall be vacated at the ex Then Set oil Fire. Newnan, Ga., April 25. — In the pres piration of the second year, of the sec ence of nearly 2,000 people, who sent ond class at the expiration of the fourth aloft yells of defiance and shouts of joy, year, and of the third class at the ex Sam Hose, a negro who committed two piration of the sixth rear, so that one- of ti e basest acts known in the history third may be chosen every second year; of crime, was burned at the stake in a and if vacancies happen by resigna public road one and a halt miles from tion, or otherwise, during the recess of the legislature of any state, the execu liere, this afternoon. Before the torch was applied to the tive thereof may make temporary ap pyre, the negro was deprived of his pointment until the next meeting of ears, fingers and other portions of his the legislature, which shall then fill anatomy. The negro plead pitifully such vacancies.”) for his life while the uiutillation was ON A TECHNICALITY. going on, but stood the ordeal of fire — with surprising fortitude. Before the The Charge« of General Miles Will Not Be Sustained. body was cool it was cut to pieces, the lioues were crushed into small bits, Washington, April 24.—The forecast and even the tree upon which the of tiie beet inquiry report indicates wretch met his fate was torn up and that the charges of General Miles will disused of as souvenirs. The negro not be sustained, although there is was cut in several pieces, as was also j such a mass of testimony to show that his liver. Those unable to obtain the I bad beef was distributed to the army. ghastly relics direct paid the more for- I The reason for this will be technical. J tunate possessors extravagant sums or Miles showed nothing in bis charge' them. Small pieces of bone went at , against canned beef, but use I the term . 26 oents, and a bit of the liver, crisply “embalmed beef.” On this techni cooked, sold or 10 cents. cality it may be shown that the charges : Sam Hose killed Alfred Cranford, a were not sustained. white farmer, near Palmetto, aud out The people will not be convinced raged his wife, 10 days ago. that the board was not packed in tbs interest of the war department. Il is ’ Demand« Coghlan*« Removul. al«o possible that there will be a de • Chicago, April 26.—The Illinois rtianJ for an investigation by congress Staats Zeitung, in a furious editorial from those who believe that neither ' on Captain Coghlan’s utterances at the war committee nor the beef board The people are not ■ New York, demands his removal, con- was unbiased. eluding: “The American government ready to accept the reason of the two , should get rid of officers of the kind of boards, who seem to sustain Algorism Coghlan." in the department. The ConnterfrItere* riot. Within six months Venezuela as the result of North American enterprise, Philadelphia, April 22. —Soviet eerv- Five prisoners were taken from the will tiegm the manufacture of cotton. ice men say the counterfeiters arrested jail at Carlisle. Ky., to be baptised at Professor Walter F. Wilcox, of Cor here and in Lancaster, Pa., intened to the Christian church. nell university, has been appointed attempt to brilie a trusted official of Mrs. Miles, wife of the general, is a chief statistician of the census bureau. one of the United States sub-treasuries niece of Senator Sheriusi , between and dump $10,000,000 of counterfeit By means of the X rays a large snake whom and her there has always existed notes diiectly upon the government, has lieen found in the stomach of Mis. the warmest sympathy. Ths gang had a $50 note and a $100 Meury Young, at Oil City, Pa. note (tartly finisher), and planned to t The names of the United States The New York court of appeals has make plates for a $20 note. They had transports Scandia and Arizona have been changed. The former is now the decided that deposits in sanugs banks paper and machinery to carry out the plan. are not subject to taxation. Wdrreu and the latter the Hancock. Minor New« Item«. FOUL Astoria, Or., April 26.—That the en tire party that left Seaside April 7 on a timber cruise are dead is an assured fact as the bodies of three have al ready been found and search is still in progress for the fourth, who was the oldest and weakest member of the party. As soon as S. IL Doty’s body was found and brought into Seaside Satur day afternoon, Louis Chance, known as “Indian Louie,” and John Burke were engaged to start out in search of the re mainder of the party, who consisted of P. E. Heikman, a civil engineer, of this city; W. T. Radir. a timber lo cator, of Portland, and A. J. Cloutrie, of Seaside, who accompanied the party as a guide, as he was thoroughly famil iar with that section of the country. This afternoon “Indian Louie” re turned with the infer illation that they had found the bodies of Heikman aud Radir at the foot of Sugar Loaf moun tain, some distance apart, and about three miles from where Doty’s body was found. “Indian Louie” returned to give the news, while Burke continued to search for the body of Cloutrie. Ac cording to information received, there were no marks of violence on the bodies, and the cause of their death can at the present time only be sur mised. but it is generally supposed that it was the result of eating poisoned canned meat or vegetables. A party started out from Seaside this afternoon to bring back the bodies, but it may be several days before they will arrive, as it is about 15 miles throuuh a very rough country. Some writing may be found on one of the bodies that may explain the cause cf the cruisers’ deaths, but it now appears quite cer tain that they had been dead longer than at first supposed. The last entry in the field notes found on Doty were dated April 9, only two days after the patty had started out from Seaside. P. E. Heikmann was 39 years of age, and a native of Germany. His father is now a major in the German army. He came to this country about 20 years ago, and was employed for sev eral years in the engineering depart ment of the Union Pacific at Omaha. A. J. Cloutrie was 65 years of age. He came to this county from Portland about four years ago, and lived at Sea side during most of the time. “Iridian Louie” today made the fol lowing statement: “My opinion is that Cloutrie got hurt in some way, and they all stayed with him until he died, meantime exhausting all their provisions, matches, etc. After Cloutrie’s death they evidently were lost, and wandered about seeking to recover their bearings. Whether the supposition that the death of any or all of the party was due to poisoning from cairned meats or other edibles is true, there was noth ing in their surroundings to indicate. Cloutrie was one of the most practical woodsmen in this section of the coun try. According to the notes found on Doty's body, the party was tlnough its work and on its wav out.” ARMY MacArthur’s AT Hay Express«« Disapproval. Berlin, April 26. —It is announced in a semi-official note today that United States Secretary of State John Hay has expressed to the German am bassador his strong disapproval of the conduct of Captain Coghlan, of the cruiser Raleigh. FORTY-EIGHT WARSHIPS. Uncle Sain’s Navy Growing at a Rapid Rate. New York. April 26.—A special to the Tribune from Washington says: The completion within a few months of two great battle-ships, the Kearsarge and Kentucky, serves to call attention to the remarkable rate at which the American navy is growing at the pres ent time. Except among naval offi cers. who watch this progress, few per sons realize that 48 warships are now under construction for the United States, involving expeditures under ex isting contracts aggregating $33,336,- 600 for hulls and machinery alone These vessels, when equipped ready for sea. will have cost over $50,000,- 000. Eight of them are first-class sea going battle-ships, as good as any afloat, without taking into account the superiority of the gunners, machinists and officers to man them. Sixteen are torpedo-boat destroyers, averaging 29 knots speed; four are heavy harbor defense monitors; one is a sister cruis er to the New Orleans, and 18 are tor pedo-boats. HAS AN AXE TO GRIND. John Bull Will Not Abrogate Clayton* Bulwer Treaty for Nothing. New York, April 26.—A special to the Herald from Washington says: Al though willing to abrogate the Clayton- Bulwer treaty, Great Britain has made it plain to the United States that she expects an equivalent in return for her action. This equivalent will be exact ed during the negotiations of the American-Canadian commission, which is to resume sessions in Washington in August next. It is because of a demand for con cessions equal in value to that which will he given to the United States ii* the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty that the negotiations have not progressed with the promptness at first expected. It is apparent to the officials now that Great Britain proposes to use the proposition to abrogate the treaty to further its own aims in connection with the settlement of the Alaskan boundary and reciprocity questions. Great Britain is determined to make every effort to secure entry to trie Northwest Territory through Alaska, and the United States is not willing to give it to her. It may be, therefore, that she will suggest that in return for such an outlet she will surrender all her rights in the Nicaraguan canal. President McKinley and Secretary Hay have determined not to enter into any negotiations with either Costa Rica or Nicaragua respecting the Nic aragua canal until the new isthmian canal commission has submitted its re port. The Nicaragua canal commission will report within a short time, and the president will then announce the personnel of the isthmian commission. The new commission will then proceed to Panama and later to Nicaragua, and it is the expectation of the president that it will submit its re|>ort in time for consideration early in the next ses sion of congress. CALUMPIT. Trot»|»« Before the Rebel Stronghold. Manila, April 26.—On General Hale’s advance on Calumpit 50 Fili pinos and one American were killed. Hale is now before Calumpit. The army gunboats are of no further use to the army beyond Malolos, and have starteil back to Manila. The Americans have evacuated Ma lolos, and hold only the railroad piop- erty. l’rogres« of Lawton'a Troops. Manila, April 26. — Although the sticky condition of the ground, due to a rain storm, seriously impeded its progress, General Lawton’s column left San .lose today, and is expected to reach Norzagarav this evening. Colonel Summers is marching from Bocave with two battalions each from the Oregon and Minnesota regiments, three troops of cavalry and two guns. In the meantime General MacAr- thrur's division is in front of Calumpit, preparing to attack the rebels’ strong hold, and General Hale, with several guns, is threatening the enemy's flank A few rebels between Novalichee and La Loma have persistentlv inter fered with telegraphic communication, but the signal corps has repaired the breaks and captured severeal prisoners A small body of rebels at Taktav wa« discovered this morning by the armored launch Napidan. A few shots scat tered the rebels and drove them inland from the lake. All is quiet along General Hall’s aud General Ovenshine's lines. NEW WORK OF A MOB. The Alleged Accomplice of Sam Hole Hanged Near Palmetto. I ' ■ Another ('igar *»ri/nre. Toledo. O., April 26. — Revenue offi cers today seized 30,000 cigars with , counterfeit stamps. The total seized in this city is now over 70,000. , Getting Evidence. Washington, April 25. — In spite of • 11 denials, it is true the cabinet and . - the president have discussed «edition and treason as shown in the messages and letters sent to the soldiers in the Philippines and intercepted by General Otis. It is lielieved the matter will be I again taken up bv the cabinet as soon ' as details are sent by Otis and the1 names of the persons who have fought the government in this way will b< made public. Palmetto, Ga., April 26.—The body of Lige Strickland, the negro preacher who was implicated iu the Cranford murder by Sam Hose, was found swinging to the limb of a persimmon tree within a mile and a quarter of this place early today. Before death was allowed to end the sufferings of the negro, his ears were cut off, and the small finger of the left hand was sev ered at the second joint. These tro- phies were in Palmetto today. On the chest of the negro was a scrap of blood stained paper fastened with an ordi- nary pin. On one side of this paper was writ ten: "New York Journal. We must protect our ladies, 23-99.” The other side of the paper contained a warning to the negroes of the neighborhood. It read as folows: “Beware, darkies. You will be treated tiie same way.” Before being finally lvnched, Strick land was given a chance to confess to the misdeeds of which the mob sup posed him to be guilty, but he protest- ed bit innocence until the end. CARRIED OPEN LAMPS. Explosion In a Coal Mln. Killed Font Men and a Boy. Denver, April 24 —A special to the News from Albuquerque, N. M., savs: Four men and a boy employed in Cook V White’s coal mins at Madrid lost their lives at noon today. Orders are strict to the effect that only safety lamps shall be used in the mine, but two men, some time after the foreman had made his rounds, canted in open lamps.